Too strict regular expression used when searching for command groups

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#435 opened on Mar 1, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 48/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: cli, tooling

Research direction

Inspect azdev/operations/regex.py at lines 147-148 and use the linked Azure DevOps log to reproduce the command-group search failure. Confirm the regular expression rejects command groups containing newlines, then verify that the corrected matching behavior preserves existing command-group searches.

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Description

The tool uses predefined regular expressions to search for command groups. However, it strictly limits the expression that declares the command group should not have newlines.

Code https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli-dev-tools/blob/dev/azdev/operations/regex.py#L147-L148

Example https://dev.azure.com/azclitools/public/_build/results?buildId=135332&view=logs&j=168ccbe3-da49-5c0b-6478-08f7016e4bf5&t=10a595be-4223-5cc7-9a73-012871b6eaee&l=154

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